FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -But perhaps Mac’s broader impact was that it introduced to the world of computing graphical user interfaces, the mouse and trackpads for navigation, and multimedia computing. It took us out of the dark ages of DOS into the brighter era of easy to use computing that, eventually brought personal computing to the masses.

Detailed explanation-2: -The mouse created for the Apple Lisa was one of the first commercial mice ever produced. Included with the Lisa system in 1983, it was based on the mouse used in the 1970s on the Alto computer at Xerox PARC.

Detailed explanation-3: -The closest thing in the history of computing to a Prometheus myth is the late 1979 visit to Xerox PARC by a group of Apple engineers and executives led by Steve Jobs. According to early reports, it was on this visit that Jobs discovered the mouse, windows, icons, and other technologies that had been developed at PARC.

Detailed explanation-4: -The mouse was the creation of a group of Apple engineers and the fledgling design firm of Hovey-Kelley. Their great achievement was to take an expensive, failure-prone technology that had rarely been out of the laboratory, and turn it into a cheap, hardy, and easy-to-use product.